It's slightly strange, but they're mostly nobodies. MPs who hold themselves in such high regard, who imagine themselves to be so special, whose inflated sense of self-worth has led them to disobey the country for three years, are for the greatest part nonentities. Their delusion is caused by the power of parliament, by their mistaken belief that it is them, individually, rather than the institution that is important. Dissolution will bring them crashing down to earth with enhanced gravity.
The election itself will continue the clear out. I will have the record button primed for the declaration from Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford - if Yvette Cooper makes it through I'll eat my hat. Though Portillo himself has grown into a pastel-coloured gay icon since his defenestration and the extent to which, in government, he was loathed has faded with time, I doubt many in 2019 will be so fortunate.
Nigel makes the front pages of both the Telegraph and the FT (for any who are not aware, the FT is the pro-Remain, pro-authoritarian organ of the globalists, and shares writers with 'Marxism Today') and the debate you had here in yesterday's comments has moved into the columns of the MSM -
Whilst the Guardian is clearly upset by our description of the Conservatives yesterday as 'the people's party led by the people's Prime Minister delivering the people's choice' - today their front page screams 'Corbyn: The Tories don't represent the people, we do'. The election on the 12th, of course, will show who really represents the people. I doubt it will be Mr Corbyn.
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Well it is the rather cheeky chappy, Mr. Everyman, Nigel Farage.
Whether the system will have enough checks and balances to stop one of the people gaining power, is another story.
Expect a series of full on media and establishment attacks, beginning in earnest on the day that he reveals the BP position.
The degree of their success will inform the result.
By restoring the Whip to 10 of the 21 Remainer-Rebels, Boris has given a clear signal that even after the transition period, he won't be aiming for a clean-Brexit.
So, the choice is Brino with Boris ..... or Brexit with Nigel. And I made my decision a long time ago.
Would be nice if that was the choice DeeDee. The great irony is that the better Nigel does the greater the risk of their not being a Boris majority and then a serious risk if Brexit being scuppered. Let's hope he does all he can to ensure this deal goes through and then puts maximum pressure on Boris to default to the no-deal after the 12 months.
It might be 'strange' and they may all be 'nobodies' but it sticks in my craw that those MP's unwilling to stand for re-election have managed to usurp the will of the people for years, get paid for doing it and then get secure, generous payments in 'retirement' or by simply leaving office.
There is no accountability. The life of an MP needs to be tied to their results and not be the continual free-for-all in terms of gorging themselves at the taxpayers expense.
I'm glad to see the back of them but disappointed that they may simply be replaced by other no-name, politically ambitious and unrepresentative clones.
So you won't waste time doing a recording of the Broxtowe result.
I hope it returns a Tory and Ms. Soubry loses her deposit.
I find this really strange. It is not Nigel or Boris, Nigel is not posing a threat to Boris, he is attempting to threaten the deal, and he is also most likely to upset quite a lot of labour seats, who we all seem to regard as the real enemy.
The MEP that represents the split John Longworth, is typically a tory, it is always tories that are disloyal when it comes to party matters, once a tory always a tory should always be remembered.
Anyway, a cursory look at the 29 MEP's will give a clue as to where Nigel is aiming, and it isn't for Boris.
My hope is that enough leave minded habitual tory voters realise that and avoid going full on in working class conservative areas.
Anyway, the tory party is led by a remainer, so you have good reason to think carefully, especially as a tory win will ensure that we DON'T leave.
A drinker's guide to political parties:
Conservatives: Can organise a piss-up in a brewery and pocket the profits.
Labour: Will promise to organise a piss-up in a brewery as long as the brewery owners can be compelled to pay for it, or the breweries are nationalised. Only one approved beer will be available.
Lib Dem: Will organise a piss-up in a brewery as long as only zero alcohol beer is served (for your own good).
The Brexit Party: We'll provide some barrels of beer in a tent on the village green because the breweries have become too commercialised and run by their marketing divisions.
{whimsy}
@Dj
You forgot the SNP - "did you spill my pint"?
"Only Kate Hoey, I suspect, will be missed."
It's great to start the day roaring with laughter, Raedwald. Thanks.
I'd ask her fine, Remain-voting constituents, eh?
Speaking of the SNP, when can we have a referendum in the whole of the UK on the idea of an independent Scotland?
I mean we wouldn't want them to ignore the English in a given referendum, would we?
Troll wit. Fascinating.
Makes a change from fuckwit!
DJ +1
Alongside Kate Hoey, add Norman Lamb as an MP who will be sorely missed.
The last truly Liberal MP in the so-called "Liberal" "Democrats".
Norman voted for the Deal and to respect the Referendum result, unlike his illiberal undemocratic colleagues.
@RW - along with their 'acceptance' of mandatory legal challenges to derail their plans, the discussion over border arrangements and trade negotiations with their major export market - England.
Comical!
I shall not miss my MP, Fallon, as he's been ineffective locally for ages and is still tainted by association with the LIBOR scandal.
A brexiter, who hoped this morning would be his first in a free Britain has instead woken up to another day as a serf in a vassal state.
Martin Bishop sat and drank his cup of tea this morning while gazing out at a country which once dreamed of finally standing tall but has been beaten down into a cringing, subservient wreck by its despotic masters.
He said: “This morning, tormented by thoughts of treason, I rose and watched the sun rise over a nation that’s no more than a gigantic gulag for our Marxist masters in Brussels, and I wept.
“I saw children rise and go to football practice, knowing deep down they are just disposable cogs in the EUSSR’s grinding machinery and could be replaced by Bulgarians at any time.
“I saw Ocado delivery vans arrive, not bringing good British groceries grown on allotments like in the war, but soulless, regimented carrots farmed without mercy by cruel Spaniards with whips.
“I saw a country betrayed, ground down, hopeless and broken. Then I watched Cash in the Attic.”
Clever parody, anon 10.57 - and regular commenters will forgive me for having to read it twice to be sure ;)
if I could save any, it would be three: KH (as already suggested) John Mann and Nicholas Hurd.
There are 42 days to go, this campaign will be very interesting, much more than many GE before. The permutations are myriad and I suspect many fuckwits will survive (the North London mafia for sure)
JRM - Kate Hoey's constituents continued to vote for her, Remainers and Leavers, so we must conclude they had no complaints.
Just checked up on my MP, Gillian Keegan (Con). She's a Scouser and she was persuaded to become an MP by Justine Greening. On her web-site shewrites " ... my approach to Brexit is that we should honour the result of the Referendum but we should leave in an orderly way, with a deal. I have spent too long working in many different business sectors to think that a “no deal”/WTO Brexit will have no or limited impact.
She is the God-mother to TWO of Bercow's children. Seems that Brexit is going to get my vote.
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